Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,"
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He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you.
Andrew Sean Greer, Less
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my sunset collection (by Joanne Liu)
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why is trying to make a new friend so embarrassing. hi. me again. asking for your attention once more even though i am literally just some random person to you. it's because i want to be not just a random person to you. please understand
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me reading straight up pornography: hmm… this one just doesn’t have enough accurate character psychoanalysis to get me off
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I think a funny thing to do would be to just have baseball in your fantasy setting. Completely unchanged if you'd like.
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Put That Guy in a SituationTM Ask Game/Prompt!
For when you want to put your favorite little guy (gender neutral) in a fanfic-type Situation. Send in a fandom, character(s), and/or relationship/ship as well as a number (or a few!) Feel free to use for fanfic, art, or whatever you choose!
Touch starved/cuddle curse
Time loop
Misunderstandings
Mind meld/telepathy/mind reading
Amnesia
Reverse amnesia (everyone else has no memory/recognition of your character)
Trapped in a room/closet/elevator
“Who did this to you?”
Sleep deprivation
Framed for a crime they didn’t commit
Hiding from pursuers
Turned invisible
Drunken/drugged/sleepy confessions
Role swap
Soulmates
Meeting past/future self
Tending to an injury/wound/illness
Possession/Mind control
De-aged
Personality swap
Fear poison/gas
Truth or dare/party games
Loss of powers/abilities/skills
Showing up injured at their friend/mentor’s house
Showing up injured at their enemy’s house
Group project/team effort
Demon summoning
Curse of obedience/can’t disobey a direct order (the “Ella Enchanted”)
Time jumping/time travel/fix-it
Only one bed
Cursed/turned into an animal
Body swap
Reincarnation
Love spell/curse/potion
Hatred spell/curse/potion
Avalanche/huddle for warmth
Secret relationship
Multiverse/meeting alternate version of self
Avoiding a conversation
Identity reveal/major secret revealed
Panic attacks
True love’s kiss/breaking a curse
Fake dating
Arranged marriage
Realization of feelings at the Worst Possible Moment
Confessions during an argument
Sickfic/caretaking
Enemy caretaker
Self-sacrificial
Meet cute
Meet ugly/awkward first meetings
Fake death/presumed dead
Wings/supernatural body features
Kidnapping
Mutual Pining (+ Oblivious)
Mutual platonic/familial yearning
Accidental hand-holding
Crying
Lying curse/forced to lie about something
Truth Serum/spell
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sometimes all you need is one passionate person who goes berserk for your work to keep you creating
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no matter how terrible my day is. i can always end my day in bed imagining fictional characters making out sloppy style and fucking raw. and that's beautiful. there's some good in this world mister frodo and it's worth fighting for
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